Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
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The Fish Not Observing the Water
Our perspective is like the sum total of our beliefs and world views. We don't even think that we're making a choice when we view a situation in a certain way. The religious dogmatist problem is exactly the same as the story's unbeliever, blind certainty. No matter how certain you are with your beliefswen, he says he's learned in this the hard way. You have not yet, but i learned it the easy way.
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